How Much Do You Think a Locksmith Will Charge to Open a Locked Piece of Furniture?

Am I seeing that right, is the cover already off the locking mechanism? If so, how to pick it should be obvious. Otherwise, you need a skeleton key blank, or you need to make something that would resemble one.

This would be a rod with a flat piece of metal on the end, like a miniature flag. The lock will determine how wide (thick) the flag part needs to be. anyway, you mark the key blank with pencil lead, ink, something of that nature, then put it in the lock and twist it back and forth several times, not trying to open the lock, but leave marks on the key blank.

When you've done that, pull it out and see what marks are left on the key, that will give you an outline of what shape it has to be. File it down, use a dremel or whatever until it's that shape, you have a key. You might use a little simpler solution, with a pair of needle nose pliers, bend over just a tiny bit of the end of a good stout clothes hanger wire to ninety degrees, heat this bent end by some method, a gas stove will do, then hammer it flat on a piece of steel, the sidewalk, whatever.

Reheat the end red hot, then quench it in cold water. This will make it hard enough to pick that lock with. The problem you're having at the moment is you don't have something that will do the job.

You can't readily go out and buy lock picks at the store so you have to make the tools. They are available online, here's the kind you need: http://www.lockpickshop.

com/WP-5GS.html Some dental tools will do the trick as is.

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Diamond is a hard transparent material made of only carbon atoms.

graphite is a black, soft material.

Diamonds are unstable compared to coal (or more exactly, graphite) so high temperature and pressure are required for diamonds to form from graphite. The reason that coal (graphite) is black and diamonds are clear has to do with how the carbon atoms are connected together in the two different forms of carbon.

In diamond each carbon atom is bonded to its neighbors like the points of a pyramid. In graphite (coal) the atoms are connected to one another is flat planes. The flat planes can absorb light of all wavelengths (colors) while the pyramids found in diamonds cannot absorb any visible light and as a result are transparent.

The reason for the difference is that the electrons in the large flat sheets of graphite can all "giggle" at many frequencies, but the tightly bound and constrained electrons in diamond are not free to "giggle" and thus cannot absorb light. Heat and pressure change coal into diamond, but it is the change in crystal structure that results in the color change. Graphite is composed of flat sheets of carbon similar to shale and basically keeps going in all direction until the end of the sheet.

Diamond is a 7-carbon crystal, which is 3-dimentional and therefore gives the crystal light refracting properites. Color is a result of light absorbtion or light reflextion. Black means that all possible colors are being absorbed and white means that all colors are reflected.

In the case of diamond, it is clear because light passes through it. The brilliance of diamond comes from internal refraction, then the light separating out into each individial color, like a prism. The diamond is cut in such a way so that the light enters the top, gets partially reflected off of the bottom cuts and comes back out the top as a rainbow.

The better the cut and clarity of the diamond, the more brilliance/sparkle you obtain.

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I think I might have short circuited my garage door opener. Need help to determine if opener is a goner.

Oops! I have done the same thing more than once. Was the circuit board still plugged into the wiring harness?

If it was you probably shorted the board to the metal case or framework of the opener. The three relays and the transformer are the only 120V parts. Everything else is low voltage.

With the opener unplugged (haha) look at the rear of the board. (the exposed side) examine the traces on it. The ones in question are on the right side as you hold the board looking at it with the wire harness side up.

The burnt trace(s) are easy to see. The solder and the copper it is on vaporizes when shorted. If you repair the defect(s) with a soldering iron and a bit of thin copper wire the opener will be OK most of the time.

The other components come through intact because the hot (black) is shorting to ground (green) usually leaving the other stuff undamaged. I imagine you got a flash/pop or both. The repair should be neat.

Invite a electronically oriented friend over if you cannot solder. (pencil iron, not a gun type) Email me a picture if you cannot find the defect or if you need more help. Make sure to test the safety reverse after you are finished as per factory manual.

The safety reverse should be set as light as possible and still run the door. Many door people just change the board, and I cannot fault them but I am old school. And now that I think about it if the thing is dead and you have no green or amber lights on your safety beams you probably burnt the hot lead (black) going to the 120V side of the transformer.

I think that side is the one nearest the pins for the wiring harness

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How can you get the perfect straight line?

There are three typical ways to get a straight line on canvas using acrylic or any other type of paint. The first two are easy enough to do.

The third way, used most often by professionals and illustrators and draftsmen, required a little more practice. 1. The quickest way is to use a ruler or straight edge and a soft leaded pencil and draw the straight line you want to paint up to.

The only downside to this easy way is you have to have a steady enough painting hand to paint right up to the edge of the penciled in line perfectly straight. 2. You could use masking tape, pressing it lightly across the area where you want your straight line to be and then paint right up to the side of the tape.

The cool thing about getting your straight line this way is that even if you paint into the masking tape it won't matter because once you pull up the tape the excess comes up with the tape. Your painted straight will be as perfect as the tape line is. The downside to using masking tape is that if you press it down too hard to the canvas it's hell to peel off.

3. The third way, used by most commercial artist and draftsmen and painters, is to get yourself some cheap c-clamps and several metal straight edges or metal yardsticks and clamp the ruler or straight edge (from the canvas frame) down at each end of the canvas. Them you paint up to the edge of the ruler or straight edge you are using.

There is no downside to doing it this way except paying a visit to your local hardware store to buy the c-clamps and straight edges or yard sticks and learning how to clamp the metal ruler or metal straight edge down just right on each edge of the canvas. (Personally, I use either the masking tape or the c-clamp way about equally. Masking tape it fine as long as you don't press it too hard into the canvas.

The c-clamps and metal straight edge way is better once you get used to doing it this way.)

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what are some middle school science fair questions?

i was in 7th grade last year and my project made it to the fair.

u might want to consider it.its chemistry and i think it was pretty good. topic: How can water be split into hydrogen and oxygen?

I was testing which substance can split water in hydrogen and oxygen, salt, sugar, or vinegar Materials :-3 nine volt batteries -6 pencils (with erasers and the metal parts removed) -3 thin cardboards -3 electrical wires -3 small glasses -water -a teaspoon of sugar - a teaspoon of vinegar - a teaspoon of salt Procedure 1. Sharpen each pencil at both ends 2. cut the cardboards to fit over the glasses 3.

push two pencils in the cardboard an inch apart (do it for each cup) 4. dissolve the sugar for the first cup, vinegar for the second cup, then salt for the third cup 5. Using one piece of the electrical wire, connect one end on the positive side of the battery and the other to the black graphite (the "lead" of the pencil) at the top of the sharpened pencil.

Do the same for the negative side connecting it to the second pencil top (do it for each cup) 6. Place the other two ends of the pencil into each cup of water here is an image of how your project should look like http://www.energyquest.

ca.gov/projects/images/splitH2O.gif Result: salt is the best conductor because it is made up of charged elements.

These elements help produce the electricity. the cups with vinegar and sugar had no effect. sugar is a covalent compound but it is non polar, which means it does not have partial charges and is neutral.

due to the lack of charges, there is no electricity produced. vinegar is covalent and polar but it consists of acetic acid in its molecular structure. this is weak acid which makes vinegar unable to conduct electricity.

hope you find this useful :D